Dr Matthew Reid
President

Matthew Reid was elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia in 2007.

He is a  medical doctor and registrar in Public Health Medicine, and first joined Médecins Sans Frontières in 2002. His field work has taken him to Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sudan (Darfur and Port Sudan) and Russia (Moscow, Ingushetia and Chechnya). In these projects he has worked as a doctor, field coordinator and medical coordinator with many different populations such as refugees, street children, malnourished people, people living with HIV and TB and those affected by cholera and meningitis outbreaks.

Matthew is currently living in Christchurch, New Zealand, with his wife and two children.

Dr Nicholas Coatsworth
Vice President

Nick Coatsworth was elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia in May 2008.

He is a Sydney-based doctor who joined Médecins Sans Frontières in 2004. He has worked in the field in Congo-Brazzaville, Chad and Sudan in the Darfur region. In the field he has worked as a doctor and field coordinator in areas such as primary healthcare and measles vaccination campaigns.

Nick is a Senior Medical Registrar at Royal North Shore Hospital and is currently training to be a respiratory physician.

Mr Peter Hooker
Treasurer

Peter has been a board member of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia since 2001.

He is a finance specialist and small business owner with a background in chemical engineering and investment banking, based in Sydney.

Peter has provided pro bono financial guidance and support to Médecins Sans Frontières Australia for five years.

Dr Nick Wood

Nick Wood has been a member of the Médecins Sans Frontières Australia board since May 2004.

Nick, a paediatrician, completed his medical degree at the University of New South Wales, from which he also obtained a Masters of Public Health. He has worked in the field with Médecins Sans Frontières, in Akuem, Sudan and Guangxi province, China and is currently employed at The Children’s Hospital Westmead in Sydney’s west.

Ms Emma Timmins

Emma Timmins was elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia in 2006.

Emma is a registered nurse who first joined Médecins Sans Frontières in 1999. She has completed four field missions with Médecins Sans Frontières in Kazakhstan, Indonesia (twice) and Ethiopia. She worked as a nurse and field coordinator in these projects with populations affected by meningitis epidemics, TB and malnutrition.

She currently lives in the Blue Mountains with her husband and two children.

Mr Dino Asproloupos

Dino Asproloupos was elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia in May 2008.

He worked and volunteered with Médecins Sans Frontières in various capacities,  mainly in Athens as Project Manager Reintegration in 2002 and as a governance consultant with the Médecins Sans Frontières International Office in Geneva in 2002 and as Project Manager/Acting General Director MSF Greece  in 2004.

Originally from Zambia, Dino completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Canada.  He has worked in the Caribbean, Canada, Spain, Greece and Australia with various organisations.
Currently, Dino works for the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Victoria, as International health program advisor and also serves on the board for the Antares Foundation Australia.

Ms Véronique Avril

Véronique Avril was elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières- Australia in May 2009.

Véronique is a Member of the Médecins Sans Frontières - France board representing the Médecins Sans Frontières- Australia board in Paris.

Véronique has been involved with Médecins Sans Frontières since 1991, mainly as logistician in Paris in 1991 and then in the field as administrator in Zaire-Rwanda in 1994 and 1995, and Ethiopia in 2008. She was the marketing director of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia in 1996 and of Médecins Sans Frontières US in 2001. She was also a member of the audit team for Médecins Sans Frontières Australia France in 2008.

She is currently living in France and working as Project Chief in the municipality of Paris.

Dr Pauline Horrill

Pauline Horrill was first elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières- Australia in May 2002 until May 2005. She was elected again in May 2009.

Pauline first started with Médecins Sans Frontières in 1998 in Sri Lanka working as a field doctor and then in Yemen and Sierra Leone. She was then field coordinator in Ethiopia, Medical coordinator in Afghanistan and Iran and Emergency co-ordinator  for Ethiopia, Sudan and Ivory Coast, then she was working in the Paris office first as Deputy Programme Manager in Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Angola, Afghanistan, Palestine, and then as Programme Manager for  Sudan, Tchad, Iran and Sri Lanka.

Currently she is living in Wellington, New Zealand, where she works as General Practitioner, and a lecturer University of Otago in the post graduate study in Refugee and Migrant Health.